10 Times WWE Saddled Wrestlers With HORRENDOUS Names

A rose by any other name may still smell as sweet, but if Chilly McFreeze 3:16 threatened to whoop anyone’s ass, there’s every chance the Attitude Era may never have begun. Stone Cold Steve Austin may be one of the most beloved superstars the business has ever known, but it’s debatable whether even he could get a name as dumb as this over.

After going through some pretty daft gimmicks (“The Ringmaster”), it was decided that Austin was due a makeover, based on a hitman who kept his victims in freezers. Something about that cold theme evidently appealed to Vince, who pitched “Fang McFrost” and “Ice Dagger” as well. Who can say whether the Chilly Stunner would have ushered in the McFreeze era, but it would certainly have been a harder sell. The “Stone Cold” moniker would come to Austin after his wife warned him about the plunging temperature of his tea, and the rest really was history.

Interestingly, legendary booker and manager Dutch Mantell gave Stone Cold the “Austin” part of his name prior to this, using the equally lazy process of asking the wrestler where he was from, and then making that his name. Uninspired, perhaps, but it did the job.